Skype for Alfred

UPDATE: 4.8.2014 – Skype decided that having a Desktop API isn’t good for their customer experience anymore. Hence this plugin will no longer work, I’m sorry.

If you are using OSX and don’t know Alfred, you are definitely missing out. This is by far the most useful tool and the main reason, I currently favour OSX over Windows and Linux. If you have the PowerPack Alfred allows for custom plugins and that’s where all the fun begins. My first plugin gives you the ability to Skype from within Alfred.

Skype needs to be running for this to work. You should receive a warning from skype, that a programm wants to access its data – accept.

There is a Contact Action for using the alfred contacts to call skype, simply create a new Contact Action as described here http://support.alfre…-contact-action and select “Call Skype”, if you have saved skype usernames in your contacts as well, they should work too.

Requirements:

Alfred, Skype, Python (preinstalled in OSX)

Download:

http://d.pr/f/cimZ

Known Issues:

When you hit enter too fast, a few letters can be cut off. I have optimised what is possible to remedy this, to completely remove it, a feature change in Alfred is necessary. Simple fix, add a space after your message.

does not work with group conversations

< > ” don’t work.

Wishlist/TODO: (decreasing importance)

Filter empty Messages. (i.e. if they contained call information that is filtered already)

Find user image

sr without autcomplete

Display status for the users with icon (maybe, if you know a good way to compose images without using libraries that need installation let me know…)